Charles Templeton Quotes

#1. I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

Rick Santorum

#2. He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I've ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world ...

Charles Templeton

#3. Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that
for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty
is demonstrably untrue?

Charles Templeton

#4. Can't promise I'll stay. That would be lying. And I'm so, so tired of lies.

Ellen Hopkins

#5. You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

Charles Templeton

#6. The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

Rush Limbaugh

#7. I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Andre Agassi

#8. Bashful? She and her friends made Girls Gone Wild look like a quilting circle.

Kresley Cole

#9. Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

Charles Templeton

#10. The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

Charles Templeton

#11. They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

Rima Fakih

#12. Men for whom reason begins with the Revival of Learning, men for whom religion begins with the Reformation, can never give a complete account of anything, for they have to start with institutions whose origin they cannot explain, or generally even imagine.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

Charles Templeton